nanny goat

plural nanny goats · alternative nanny-goat · alternative nannygoat

1. childishA female goat.

   Poor old Robinson Crusoe! / Poor old Robinson Crusoe! / They made him a coat / Of an old nanny goat, / I wonder how they could do so!

   1886, James Orchard Haliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England, 5th edition, page 10

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   And later, at an opportune moment, when Franny was pretending to sample a cup of chicken broth, Mrs. Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains.

   1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961

   Synonyms: nanny, she-goat